The Harlem Renaissance, The Gravey Movement and The New Negro



Marcus Gravey Mini Bio
1.) Marcus Gravey influenced some of the best Black activists, such as, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Nelson Mandela.
2.) The U.N.I.A. was about black self-determination, self-pride, and pride in ones race. It was also about "galvanizing the ideas of black repatriation to the mother land of Africa."
3.) The Black Star Line was a shipping company, in which Garvey planned to use it to transport passengers back to Africa.
4.)  I think Garvey was so supportive and cooperative with white supremacist's who wanted to send Blacks back to Africa, because that was a goal of his when he started the Black Star Line.
Harlem 1900-1940
1.) Just like "Black Wall Street" Harlem had was highly and mainly populated by Blacks. The Blacks in Harlem were entrepreneurs too; they were store owners, real-estate brokers, funeral directors, and providers of of other skilled services for their community.

2.) The Negro World, was a journal published by Marcus Gravey, that promoted his African nationalist ideas. Like the NAACP, Garvey campaigned against lynching, Jim Crow laws, denial of black voting rights and racial discrimination.
"A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin is like a tree without roots." In this quote Gravey, is basically questioning how can you call yourself apart of ones heritage and do not know any of your history.
"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life." This quote by Gravey is insinuating, how if you do not have confidence in yourself, then how do you expect someone else to believe in you.

3.) The banners from the Silent Protest read, "Mother, do lynchers go to Heaven" "Mr. President why not make America safe for democracy," "Thou shalt not kill," "Pray for the Lady Macbeths of East St. Louis" and "Give us a chance to live." In the small article, it doesn't clarify what roles the children played in the march, but if i had to guess, I would say the children were and wanted to be involved in the march, because they wanted others to see that they too are victimized.
4.) Jack Johnson beat Tommy Burns while dancing around the ring and taunting, similar to how Ali did 50 years later.The "Great White Hope" was the search of a white man to beat Jack Johnson and strip his championship title away from him. After Johnson's boxing career, he opened his own super club in Harlem named, Club Deluxe, at 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue.
5.) The NY Black Yankees played in the Negro National League from 1936-1948. The team was founded in Harlem. On the teams hectic schedule, it just mentioned that he was punishing. Bill "Bojangles" Robinson is best known as a tap dancer and actor of stage and film.